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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The Harvard women’s tennis team finally became accustomed to California life just in time to come back home.

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Edges Pepperdine | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

The only utensils I took from Cambridge were my favorite heavy-duty kitchen shears and a couple of little no-stick frying pans I'd been saving for a rainy day--because, you know, they do wear out. They're just the right size to make a hamburger when you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Paring Down | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

If Dell Computer is to buck the trend and continue to record its accustomed average annual revenue growth of 33%, it must in the future wrest market share away from Legend. That won't be easy. About one out of every three PCs sold on the mainland carries the Legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Whom the Dell Tolls | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

By 2003 the process of federalizing security screeners will be complete, and some airports will have begun bringing in private firms who will operate under government oversight. Still, most experts agree that airline security is nowhere near as tight as it needs to be. "Things will have to be much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Flight Plans for 2003 | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

Of course, making good on that guarantee requires bending the prey-and-predator rules. Animals at some preserves are so accustomed to humans that they wander into range at the sound of a rattling feed bucket. Elsewhere they're confined to small patches of woods where they can't elude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting Made Easy | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

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